《Born to Be Alive》 S1·E31 (09:19)
HSK 7
bái lǎo bǎn duō kōu a
白老板多抠啊
“Mr. Bai is stingy.”
《Born to Be Alive》
S1·E31
TIMECODE: 09:19
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN
ràng bái lǎo bǎn gěi nǐ dì jiè shào gè huó bei
“ask Mr. Bai to help your brother get a job?”
bái lǎo bǎn duō kōu a
CURRENT FOCUS
白 老板 多抠啊
“Mr. Bai is stingy.”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
shuō shén me ne
说什么呢
“What are you talking about?”
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Scene:
Daily Life
Function:
REJECTION WITH CRITICISM
Tone:
DISMISSIVE
Emotion:
DISAPPROVAL
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Don't bother asking him, he is too stingy to ever help us out.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Guanxi and Job Seeking
Asking acquaintances or bosses to arrange jobs for relatives is common in China, but approaching notoriously tight-fisted individuals is seen as pointless.
INTENT TAGS:
#dismissal
#criticism
#excuse
#complaint
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1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
多抠啊
SPOKEN CHUNK
so stingy; extremely cheap
A highly colloquial, expressive way to criticize someone's unwillingness to spend money or share resources.
Modal Particle「啊」 (a)
CHANGE OF STATE
Adds an exclamatory and emphatic nuance to emphasize the extreme degree of the quality.
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1 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
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